myrtle

See also: Myrtle

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Old French myrte, from Latin myrtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːtəl/
• enPR: mûrʹtəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɝtəl/, [ˈmɝtᵊɫ], [ˈmɝɾᵊɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)təl

Noun

myrtle (plural myrtles)

1. An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bog myrtle (Myrica gale)
• common myrtle (Myrtus communis)
• crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)
• creeping myrtle ()
• crêpe myrtle, crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)

• myrtle warbler ()
• myrtle wax
• rose myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa)
• Saharan myrtle ()

• sand myrtle, sand myrtle ()
• true myrtle (Myrtus communis)
• wax myrtle ( (syn. ))

Translations

evergreen shrub

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒊍 (^GIŠAZ /⁠asu⁠/), 𒄑𒀀𒊍 (^GIŠA.AZ /⁠asu⁠/)
• Amharic: ኣደስ (ʾadäs), አደስ (ʾädäs), ባርሰነት (barsänät), የሚለመልም (yämilämälm), ምርሰኔ (mərsäne)
• Arabic: آس (ar) m (ʔās), رَيْحَان m (rayḥān), مَرْسِين m (marsīn), قُمَام m (qumām), هَدَس m (hadas) (Yemen, Oman)

  Moroccan Arabic: ريحان m (rīḥān), هلموش m (halmūš)

• Aramaic:

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָסָא m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא m (hăḏasā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: אָסָא m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא m (hăḏasā)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܵܣܵܐ m (ʾāsā)

• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: мірт m (mirt)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мѝрта f (mìrta), мирт m (mirt)
• Catalan: murta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香桃木 (xiāngtáomù)

• Czech: myrta (cs) f
• Danish: myrte
• Dutch: mirte (nl) c
• Finnish: myrtti (fi)
• French: myrte (fr)
• Galician: murteira f, murta f, silvarda f, lundio (gl) m
• Ge'ez: አደስ (ʾädäs), ምርስኔ (mərsəne), መርሳኒ (märsani), ሚርስንስ (mirsəns), ሚርሰንስ (mirsäns), ሚረሲንስ (miräsins), ሜርሴንስ (mersens), ምርስኔን (mərsənen), መርሲኔ (märsine), መርሲኔን (märsinen), ብርስኖት (bərəsnot), ብርስዩን (bərsəyun), ብርስዮን (bərsəyon) , እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas)
• German: Myrte (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μυρσίνη f (mursínē)

• Hawaiian: mā'kala
• Hebrew: הֲדַס (he) (hăḏás)
• Hungarian: mirtusz (hu)
• Irish: miortal m
• Italian: mirto m
• Japanese: ギンバイカ (ginbaika)
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• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 은매화 (eunmaehwa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مۆرت (mort)

  Northern Kurdish: mord (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: myrtus f
• Macedonian: мирта f (mirta)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: myrte
• Old Church Slavonic: мрътва f (mrŭtva), мѵръта f (mürŭta)
• Persian: مورد (fa) (murd), مور (fa) (mur) (archaic)
• Polish: mirt (pl) m
• Portuguese: murta (pt) f, mirto (pt) m
• Romanian: mirt (ro) m
• Russian: мирт (ru) m (mirt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мр̏ча f, ми̑рта f

  Latin: mȑča (sh) f, mȋrta (sh) f

• Slovak: myrta f
• Slovene: mírta (sl) f
• Spanish: arrayán (es) f, murta (es) f, mirto (es) m
• Swahili: mhadasi
• Swedish: myrten (sv)
• Tagalog: mirto
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: ኣደስ (ʾadäs)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: مرسین

  Modern Turkish: mersin (tr)

• Ugaritic: unknown, absent from the texts
• Ukrainian: мирт m (myrt)
• Welsh: myrtwydden f

References

• “myrtle”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• termly